Narrator Now listen to a conversation between two students on campus.
Male student Hi . . . good morning. Could you help me with something?
Female student Um. Maybe. What’s up?
Male student Well, I’m a first-year student.
Female student Everything going OK?
Male student Actually no. Um, this is a little embarrassing—I think I left my class schedule back at my dorm.
Female student Hmm. Not a good thing to do on the first day of classes.
Male student Yeah. So I’m not sure where my class is. I think I remember it was supposed to be here in Smith Hall.
Female student There’s a computer for student use in the student center. You could go over there, look it up and check the room number. But you’d have to hurry.
Male student Hmmm . . . That’s not a bad idea . . . I could check my schedule for the whole rest of the day at the same time . . . I don’t know where any of my other classes are either. But I don’t want to be late . . . make a bad impression with the professor on the first day. It’s actually my very first class—introduction to psychology . . .
Female student Psychology? Oh, OK. You’re definitely in the right building. And if it’s introduction to psychology, it’s gonna be a big class, in which case it probably meets in a big lecture hall. There are only three lecture halls in the building—one on every floor. Just check each floor till you find yours. There’s an elevator, so you should be able to move fast.
Male student Yeah, but I don’t know what the professor looks like or anything. How will I know whether it’s my class or not? It’d be sort of embarrassing—sticking my head into each lecture hall asking if I was in the right place.
Female student Well, you might luck out and find it the first time.
Narrator Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which of the two solutions from the conversation you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-24 | kap | 55.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-24 | kap | 55.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 458.0 599.738853503 76% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 121.0 158.596602972 76% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.78512396694 3.77925476217 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.31662479036 3.54123138178 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.98842356917 1.79916674678 111% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 95.8789808917 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.694214876033 0.607024082132 114% => OK
Syllable count: 146.7 189.005732484 78% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19129511677 101% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0950979282237 0.0831539838537 114% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.29936305732 47% => OK
Average paragraph length: 60.5 70.8089261375 85% => OK
STD paragraph length: 6.5 23.6022091992 28% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 22.915 25.9380837976 88% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 1.685 8.54438981162 20% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 20.0 40.7070063694 49% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.05 4.24305496596 143% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.72254314095 3.29867071766 173% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.23 1.4825078846 150% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.67483133479 1.02222390891 164% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 16.0 38.0 42% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.81 7.14643312102 81% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.363125 0.189447223375 192% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.222730744117 0.156783300276 142% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.49 46.7170700637 78% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.301570247934 0.297490414073 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.166654034992 0.186336302485 89% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.29723991507 123% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.11 5.7916985138 105% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.1 3.38276008493 62% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.83 59.3491295117 77% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.763833333333 0.989152158528 77% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.349116299367 0.642608181899 54% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.64019201396 2.6701766005 99% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.83286057168 1.61481078811 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.3020005481 2.05366198651 112% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.403650595041 0.327712499341 123% => OK
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Rates: 55.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 16.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.